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The Dawn and Jeff Padovan Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Dawn and Jeff Padovan Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$800
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$4kFood & Nutrition$2kReligion$2kEnvironment$650Public Safety & Disaster$500Recreation & Sports$500Housing & Shelter$450Health$450Other$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$200
Median grant
2
States reached
$153k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC$500
NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC$200
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $500 → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $200 → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $200 → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $200 → 9%STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $2k → 9%STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $500 → 9%STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $500 → 9%WILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $100 → 9%WILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $100 → 9%WILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $100 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6k · 8 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
14

Total granted

$6k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+18%

Still filing today

88%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • SA
    STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +797%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +50%
  • AB
    A BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $450 · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • SS
    SOUTH SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH AND ST LADISLAUS PARISH
    one grant, 2024 · $500
  • FO
    Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wilton Food Pantry

To provide those in need with emergency food by working together with community members, leaders, and local businesses and organizations to gather, store, and distribute goods; to offer compassionate help as we respect the dignity of each…

Food & Nutrition
2
Watertown Land Trust

Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.

—
3
Winchester Land Trust Inc

Winchester land trust works to preserve the rural character and natural resources of the winchester ct area and to educate the community about the benefits of land conservation and balanced growth

Environment
4
Winchester Historical Society
—
5
Wolcott Volunteer Ambulance Assoc Inc

Volunteer ambulance association that provides emergency medical services and emergency response and transportation for sick and injured in wolcott, ct

Health
6
Wilton Wildlife Preserve and Park Inc

Conservation of ecological systems and natural settings while providing environmental education and recreation.

Animals
7
Support Weston Ems Inc

Support weston ems, inc. provides funding and other support to weston volunteer ems, llc

Health
8
Weston Volunteer Fire Department Inc

The weston volunteer fire department provides fire protection and emergency medical services (ambulance services).

Public Safety & Disaster
9
Winchester Volunteer Fire Department

to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Washington Ambulance Association Inc

To serve the town of washington, ct by providing professional and compassionate emergency medical services

Health
11
Wilmot Volunteer Fire Company

The Company is organized to protect life and property, suppress fire, provide emergency medical services, rescue operations, hazardous materials response, education and fire prevention, fire inspection, and any other activity deemed…

Public Safety & Disaster
12
Wilton Historical Society Inc

To maintain wilton historical society's collection of historic buildings, care and conservation of antiques and artifacts. exhibits and educational programs and events to educate the public of all ages on wilton's history.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc; the most unlike its peers is Animals in Distress Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesSTAY AT HOME IN WILTON INCBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INCWILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $300 · Human ServicesWILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INCSOUTH SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $1,000 · OtherSOUTH SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHST JOSEPH AND ST LADISLAUS PARISH: $500 · OtherST JOSEPH AND ST LADISLAUS PARISHCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $400 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC - METRO NY REGION: $250 · OtherLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC - …PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $200 · OtherPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $200 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN STUART: $200 · OtherST MARYS EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN STUAR…WILTON FIRE & EMS INC: $200 · OtherWILTON FIRE & EMS INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPIT…NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $200 · OtherNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INCFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF…Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc: $500 · EnvironmentFriends o…WILTON GARDEN CLUB: $350 · EnvironmentWILTON GA…Wilton Land Conservation Trust: $100 · EnvironmentWilton La…A BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC: $450 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $250 · EducationWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 · EducationPET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $250 · AnimalsANIMALS IN DISTRESS INC: $200 · AnimalsMEALS ON WHEELS OF WILTON INC: $400 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$4,100Other$3,350Arts & Culture$1,000Environment$950Education$800Animals$450Food & Nutrition$400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC: $2,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC: $450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF WILTON INC: $400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWILTON GARDEN CLUB: $350 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILTON FIRE & EMS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMALS IN DISTRESS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilton Land Conservation Trust: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Perakis Foundation Ja…Alexander Family Foun…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Krasnow Family Founda…Shames Family Foundat…Davatzes Family Found…The Lumpkin Family Fo…Fairfield County's Co…Synchrony FoundationIbm International Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…
Perakis Foundation James Perakis TrusteeCT20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Perakis Foundation James Perakis Trustee · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Krasnow Family Foundation · Shames Family Foundation · Davatzes Family Foundation Inc · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dawn and Jeff Padovan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dawn and Jeff Padovan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Wilton Library Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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